Today’s Motto: ‘If you can dream it, then you can achieve it’
As Every Day makes a new beginning in life, it brings new opportunities, opens new avenues, to perform and make a mark, to write a Page in history Book.
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
On this day, Jan. 08…
1838 – The first telegraph message in the US in which letters were represented by dots and dashes was transmitted.
1889 – 1st Computer patented. Herman Hollerith was a German-American inventor who developed 
an electromechanical punched card tabulator to assist in summarising information and, later, accounting (pic credit-BBC).
1927 – The first scheduled London-Delhi flight arrives after 63 hrs.
1940 – George Stibitz’s Complex Number Calculator was functional. It has been called the first electromechanical computer for routine use.
1965 – ‘Star of India’ Gem, returned to American Museum of Natural History. (The Star of India is a 563.35-carat – 112.67 g – star sapphire, one of the largest such gems in the world).
1998 – Scientists announced the identification for the first time of a key brain chemical related to nicotine addiction, in the journal Nature.
2000 – The Government reconstitutes the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts and Trust and retains Mrs. Sonia Gandhi as a trustee along with Mr. P. V. Narasimha Rao, Prof. Yashpal and Dr. Abid Hussain.
2013 – U.S. scientists claim 2012 weather as the hottest year ever recorded.
2020 – Iran launches missile strike on Irbil and Al Asad bases in Iraqi housing some American troops in retaliation to assassination of General Qasem Soleimani.
Born….
1908 – Mary Nadia Wadia (Fearless Nadia), a bold Indo-Australian actor who acted in films like Hunterwali, Muqabala etc.(photo credit-Wikipedia).
1929 – Saeed Jaffrey, popular British TV and Bollywood character actor who is known for his role in Shatranj ke Khiladi by Satyajit Ray (Photo credit – Fred Duval/FilmMagic)
1939 – Nanda, bubbling romantic Bollywood actress who acted in films like Mandir, Dhool ka Phool, Bhabhi, Shor, Gumnaan, Jaggu, , Jab Jab Phool Khile, etc. (photo credit-IMDb)
1957 – Nafisa Ali, Bollywood actor.
RIP….
1884 – Keshub Chandra Sen, a leading 19th century Bengali thinker and reformer who was influenced by Christian beliefs which he merged with Hindu philosophy to form a unique synthesis of religious thought (pic credit-AnandaBazar).
1941 – Swami Pranabananda Maharaj, father of Bharat Sevashram Sangha.
1984 – Sushma Mukhopadhyay, first Indian women pilot.
1995 – Madhu Limaye, veteran socialist thinker, freedom fighter, politician, writer, close associate of Ram Manohar Lohia and Jaya Prakash Narayan (pic credit-Samta Marg)
You may have known….
The world’s oceans contain nearly 20 million tons of gold.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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